Numerical Experiments for Nuclear Flashes toward Superbursts in an Accreting Neutron Star

Figure 1

Light curves for three representative accretion rates, 𝑀̇=3×10⁻⁸ (dotted line), 3×10⁻⁹ (solid line), and 3 ×10⁻¹⁰𝑀_⊙yr⁻¹ (dashed line). Time is set to be zero at the beginning of each burst.